Fifteen years ago, during the Bosnian war, Hasan Nuhanovic was a translator for Dutch peacekeepers in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, a U.N.-protected "safe area." As Serb forces

led by Gen. Ratko Mladic overran the city, some 30,000 Muslim residents, including Nuhanovic's family, sought refuge at the nearby U.N. base in Potocari. On July 13, 1995, after the peacekeepers negotiated with Mladic (with Nuhanovic translating), the Dutch commander ordered the refugees to leave. Despite Nuhanovic's pleas, his parents and brother were forced off the base. They would be massacred, along with thousands of others.

The Dutch - who were wearing the hated blue helmets of the United Nations actually provided aid to the folks doing the killing. This was in the form of supplying them with needed diesel fuel.

The UN was created at the end of World War II expressly to stop genocide. The reason they do so much else today is because they suck at their primary function. (They suck at everything, mostly.)

In a perfect world, we would stop supporting this bunch of useless nitwits.

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Useless is not exactly how I would describe them. My feeling is that if there is a tyrant around they will help him in anyway they can. Not necessarily the individuals but definitely the people in charge. hey, what do you expect - it often appears that the major part of the members are tyrants themselves.

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